Re: Lexical binding -- do we really need it?

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Per Abrahamsen

Subject:

Re: Lexical binding -- do we really need it?

Date:

Tue, 11 Dec 2001 09:37:25 +0100

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Sam Steingold <address@hidden> writes:
> that would be good enough - since if you will be able to plug in Guile,
The idea isn't to "plug in" Guile, but to use Guile as the native
language, and emulate Emacs Lisp (via. translation) on top of that.
> than you will be able to plug in CLISP too, and then the users will be
You can probably implement Common Lisp on top of Scheme, if that is
what you mean.
> able to use CLOS to extend Emacs.
Users can already use CLOS in Emacs, see eieio.el.